Word: boatfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...premature. When one of the President's top aides was asked whether the Administration was swinging to the right, he replied: "Sure-every other time." Only a few months ago, the liberals seemed to be in the ascendant. "It's the way you sail a boat when the wind's against you," says another White House staffer. "You tack. You average the headings...
Some supplies had been tossed overboard, and heavy waves were breaking over the low-lying stern. The reports from Ra, the 45-by 15-ft. reed boat with which Thor Heyerdahl hopes to prove that ancient Egyptians may have planted their culture in the New World, sounded a good deal less optimistic than they did during the first stages of his two-month voyage. The Norwegian adventurer and his six-man crew reported their position in the Atlantic as 1,000 miles east of Martinique and still on schedule, which calls for a landfall somewhere along the coast of Central...
...this is just water off the oil skins of François Spoerry, the man responsible for the Riviera's most spectacular new marina. Spoerry, 56, is an Alsatian architect and boat nut. He bought his swamp (for $600,000) in 1966; he dredged it and built the quays; he designed the houses and has been putting them up ever since. "I have tried to integrate the boat into the life of the vacation house," he says. "I built Port Grimaud for people who love sailing and the sea." And naturally, for profit...
...tried every kind of holiday in the south of France. I've rented the most luxurious villas. You end up every time driving your children back and forth between the house and the beach. You spend half your vacation in your car." Still, it is the proximity to boats that truly delights. As one man puts it: "I jump out of bed and into my boat...
...their quest at Henley, the Royal Regatta will be the final race for all Harvard crews this year. The Crimson heavyweights, who smashed Penn at the Eastern Sprints, undoubtedly would have presented an extremely difficult obstacle to Einheit Dresden in the Grand Challenge Cup finals, but the Harvard boat is physically and psychologically spent from nearly three years of full-time rowing. The Crimson lights, however, wanted another crack at Henley. Now, they have had the crack...